What would the male equivalent be?
5. “Adoption, as we have known it, is a solution to a social problem: a child is in need of parents. Need cries out, adoption answers. In so doing, adoption serves the best interest of children–new lives are entering the world and without adoption, they would have no one to feed them, change them, love them, teach them.” TRUTH: Infant adoption is an industry in which young unwed (and thus powerless) parents are persuaded – through force, coercion or outright lies – to transfer parental rights of their children to older, more affluent couples (and sometimes also single people), and usually strangers. Adoption exists for several reasons: to keep down the number of welfare recipients (i.e. single parents on welfare), for the North American adoption industry to profit (to the tune of $1.4 billion in 1999 alone) from the spending-power of the affluent, and (formerly) as a way of punishing young unwed mothers for their “loose and immoral” behaviour. The adoption system is now virtually a No
